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Software Review: Vizzlo [2016]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Cost and plans: Free plan (includes Vizzlo branding on your images), Premium Plan at $11 per month, plus options for businesses that include sharing images between teams from $15 per month. The Blueish theme is also pretty bad, unless your company colour is royal blue. Software Review: BusiBI Project Manager 2016 v5.7

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Qualities of a Leader: Top 20 Leadership Traits

ProjectManager.com

They all lead their teams to successful ends by providing them with the direction, confidence, tools and resources that they need. Problem-Solving Skills Leaders have the responsibility of guiding teams through challenges to reach objectives. But what are the qualities of a leader? Here’s where things get tricky.

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5 Reasons Engineers Need to Develop Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Project Management Institute’s (PMI) 2016 report The High Cost of Low Performance: How will you improve business results? cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. These skills aren’t useful, however, when dealing with problems linked to project team members or stakeholders.

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Myth: Velocity is Productivity

Scrum.org

One of our goals is to increase velocities across all our teams by X%. A company known for developing “Agile” products surveyed more 18,000 customers and Software development professionals, which is what they discovered. . 77% practice Agile Development. Atlassian Survey,2016. 77% practice Agile Development.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

Gartner estimated that AI may replace 80% of project management activities by 2030. However, the project manager, resource managers, and team members would still be required to review and validate the plan. Imagine a tool that takes requirements, develops test conditions, and automatically execute the tests.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.